chapter 27
Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:
Brooklyn Dodgers.
The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:
George Marshall.
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was:
Thomas Dewey.
In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.
True
Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in many key industries.
True
With the end of World War II, Korea:
became divided into northern and southern halves.
In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:
became the first country to recognize the Jewish state.
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:
each have veto power over major UN decisions.
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:
expand the New Deal.
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:
had an Ivy League education.
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:
high rates of inflation.
During the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT:
influence Truman to slow down on civil rights.
Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:
liberalism.
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
racist nature of the enemies of the United States.
State Department official George Kennan:
said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies.
At the 1948 Democratic Convention:
segregationist delegates from Alabama and Mississippi walked out of the convention in protest.
All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:
the Office of Homeland Security.
In 1948, President Truman desegregated:
the military.
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress.
Inch'on was the site:
where General MacArthur turned the war around with a surprise landing.
